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Categories for Completed Projects

For completed projects, the award will be presented in the following categories. All categories are open to practices of all sizes and there is no limit to the amount of categories you can enter, however one project cannot be entered in two different categories. Please see How to Enter for more details on entries.

– Commercial (Retail & Wholesale, Office & Business, Production)

– Public (Sport & Leisure, Education, Health, Mixed-use, Hospitability)

– Residential

– Rural Projects, Public Spaces (including squares and streets) and Landscapes, Urban Projects

– Old and New (Regeneration, Restoration, Renovation, Reuse, and Adaptation)

– Religion, Civic Transportation, and Community Based Projects

– Interior Architecture

– Future Projects/Innovative Designs

This category is a celebration of excellence design-only, future or uncompleted projects including entries of regional/ international competitions, that meet the following conditions. We will be looking to champion creation and concept that has pushed its specific typology forward and proven a holistic and effective approach. Also:
• The site of the project is located in the continents, having rich ecological, cultural, historical or physical characteristics and features.
• Has Focused on responsive design, having addressed, challenged or responded to an architectural-related issue (physical, ecological, sociocultural, contextual, technical and..).
• It is based on local or regional studies.
• Introduces or represents an innovative design vision / approach.

Please note that:

• Future project category covers all eligible entries, regardless of the project program and subject.

• Except for the date of completion, this category covers and follows the same regulations and procedure for submission as built project categories.

 

Rules, Conditions and the procedure of the 2ACAA 2021

  • 2A Continental Architectural Awards [2ACAA 2021] is one-stage entry. 
  • The Entry is open to all professional entrants, i.e., Individual architects, urban designers, urban planners, landscape architects, multi-professional teams and Architectural firms and offices.
  • Other associated bodies, e.g., clients, developers, contractors, may also enter on behalf of the architect, with their consent.
  • Join projects between universities and industry are eligible to participate in the competition.
  • The first stage Entries include two Sheets, introducing the project, in A3 size (Maximum 10 MB Each File of the Panel).
  • The candidate projects of The First Stage Entry will be notified by email as well as will be announced in the 2A magazine website.
  • All projects should have been completed on or after 01 January 2010. For Future Projects/Innovative Design category entries, the design dates should not be older than 2010.
  •  The Future project category covers all eligible entries, regardless of the project program and subject.
  • All Projects should have been built /located in countries of Asia in 2A Asia Architecture Award and also the same rule for other continents. 
  • Participants can submit multiple projects under one website account, and there is no limit on the number of submitted projects.
  • Each project can be applied only to a single category of the Award. In other words, one project cannot be submitted under two different categories.
  • Winner projects of the previous 2ACAA are not eligible to participate in the 2ACAA 2021.
  • Participants should pay 110 EUR as the fee of the award when their projects select as 2ACAA 2021 candidate.
  • First round is free of Cost. However, on successful selection of the submission as Candidate’s Project participant has to pay €135.

Note 1: If you have any problem submitting your project to our website please contact us at: info@2aincorp.com

Vision

North America:

Historically, North America’s architecture has largely originated from, and identified with, the

architectural traditions of European neoclassicism, and modernism. Successive waves of non-European immigration, a growing appreciation of the qualities of indigenous traditions of the built environment, technological development, population growth, and the realities of global interconnectedness (culturally, economically, and environmentally) all challenge the hegemony of these European traditions of land-use, urban design, and architecture in North America. Consequently, new approaches need to be developed to address these new challenges and circumstances.
Architects, and Urban/Regional Designers have begun to address the above new challenges and circumstances in adaptive and interesting ways.
As part of its expanding activities 2A is now organizing the 2A Continental Architectural Award 2017 (2ACAA). This event will take place annually to highlight and celebrate regional and North American achievements in architecture, and urban design which will feature awards and exhibitions as well as debates by the participants on the influences and methods. 2ACAA is a critical effort to recognize and acknowledge architects, and other designers who have engaged in creating and designing buildings and cities in North America originating from their specific cultural and geographical localities and possess specific quality and characteristics attributable to their local origins. This continent-wide annual award is an attempt to offer long overdue recognition to a whole new class of architects, and urban/regional designers. A specific theme will be determined and announced every year, and the award’s content will be adjusted accordingly.
2ACAA will bring up and discusses the following aspects of the contemporary practice of
architecture, and urban/regional design in North America:
• Theoretical visions of culture, customs, politics, economics, history, and other social elements
• Ideas regarding various origins
• Conceptualizations
• Artistic and aesthetic criteria
• Sustainability
• Modern life and technology  

Criteria based on the 2ACAA Characteristics & Viewpoints 

The following criteria will be considered to recognize and honor a built project/ future project in Asia- Oceania , Europe, Africa , South & Central America and North America that has produced significant contributions to humanity and the built environment.

• Design Achievement including Concept, Strategy and Proceedings.

• Contextual analysis and studies based on the Ideas regarding various origins.

• Technical advancement includes engineering achievements (structural, mechanical, etc.) and innovative use of materials.

• Reflection of sense of place and of cultural identity and ecology; environmental sustainability (including ecological, and sociocultural sustainability).

• Social responsibility and community and urban connectivity.

• The effects of economical condition on the project.

• Transcendent Dimensions of Architecture.

2A Continental Architectural Awards [2ACAA 2020]

  2A Magazine is pleased to announce seventh 2ACAA 2021, with the theme “Innovative Contextual Architecture in the Continents”. Accordingly, the Award is for the recognition of an individual’s or group’s substantial contribution to today’s architecture in terms of contemporary challenges of the field and region and the projects that can have a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. This gathering is a profile of the diversity of cultures, identities, themes, ideas, and experiences in architecture and a platform to share, explore and discuss in a professional environment.
The program includes:
• The Award Ceremony- Online

Candidate Project

1) The projects that pass the first stage of scrutiny are regarded as  “Candidate Project.”

Note 1: The fist stage judgment will be done by a representative of the jury board and organizing committee.

Note 2: The project submission has to be done from July 25th to September 25th, 2021.

Note 3: The consideration of the first step to select the qualified projects will be done by the organizing committee.

2) The message of qualification of the candidate projects will be sent to participants [via email].

3) The list of candidate projects of 2ACAA 2021 will be declared at the website.

4) All the candidate projects will be published in a special edition of 2A Magazine.

5) All the candidate projects will receive a qualification email, representing that their project has been nominated for the final stage of judgment.

6) All the candidats’ projects will be shown in an independent video clip on the online announcement day of November 10th.

7) The professional comments from the side of jury members will also be shown at the same date of the day.

Judgment Process

The First Judging Stage:

·  All the applicants will submit their projects in Three A2(420*594 mm) sheets in PDF format to www.2aincorp.com in the respective category.

·  In this stage, candidate projects will be selected by a representetive of jury board and also organizer, And it will be published in the website. 

Note: It would be available to give them a letter to archites of the candidate projects when they continue all the procedures based on the rules & conditions.  

The Second Judging Stage:

· The candidate projects will be judged online by Jury board. 

 At the final stage, List of the 2ACAA 2021 winners and report of the judgment will be announced via 2A Magazine [International Hub for Architectural Studies].

Prizes

• The top two winners in each Award category will receive Gold and Silver medals and the award certificate, respectively.
• The award sculpture will be given to the first places in all the categories.
• Upon Jury’s approving decision there might also be some special mentions in each category.
• The special mentions will receive certificates of recognition.
• All the candidate and winner projects will be published in a special edition of 2A Magazine. 
• The winners of 2ACAA 2021 will be registered in the new facility of our website, “ Architectural Encyclopedia”, which is a platform for the introduction of the architects and their projects.
• Clients, developers and investors of the winner projects will receive a Letter of Appreciation. If winners send us the request for providing this letter.
Note: To receive the prizes and certificates which will be mailed you by the organizer. 

Award Calendar

– Stage 1:
Free Online Registration & Submission
June 20th to September 1st

– Stage 2:
Announcement of Candidate Projects : September 10th

Online Jury Process

Note: First round is free of Cost. However, on successful selection of the submission as Candidate’s Project participant has to pay €135.

Winner Announcement 📢 November 2021

Copyright Policy

By submitting your projects to the award website [www.2aincorp.com] you will give us (2A Magazine) the permission to publish and share your project in our website and display in the award ceremony, on the other hand, All the information at the projects submitted to 2ACAA have been provided by the competitors (Designer and Director) and they are the copyright holder in this regard.
If there is any miscount, mistake or lack of credits regarding the project team and designers, 2A Magazine has NO obligation and the issue concerns the participants directly.
Note: All the information submitted to the magazine has been provided by the competitors- participants or architect [designer], hence, the responsibility of the third party liability lies with the competitors.

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